Is it all about price?
There are some very striking similarities in the recent research conducted by Connect Ltd, an IT support company specialising in providing IT support to SME’s in the UK and research by Catenate Sdn Bhd, a Malaysia based outsource sub contract manufacturer, also specialising in manufacturing for SME’s in UK, Australia and US.
Even though these two companies operate in very different spheres of the outsourcing spectrum, it would seem that SME’s share very similar thoughts when it comes to considering outsourcing.
Connects research, which polled 200 UK IT managers and directors, found that the number 1 reason for considering outsourcing was ‘guaranteed response times’, (#3 in the manufacturing poll) whereas in the SME manufacturing sector, the #1 was increasing exposure to new more specialised work practices and skill sets allowing in-house employees the benefit of being able to concentrate on core competencies or higher value strategic tasks, which turned out to be #2 in the IT sector poll. Read the rest of this entry »
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